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Iceland: Women strike over inequality

Women across the Nordic island, including the prime minister, are on strike over equal pay and gender-based violence.

Women across the Nordic island, including the Prime Minister KatrΓ­n JakobsdΓ³ttir, are on strike over equal pay and gender-based violence.

It's the first full-day of action like this since 1975 when it led to an equal pay law being introduced the following year.

Rahul Tandon will hear from a protest about why more still needs to be done.

(Picture: Iceland Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, March 19, 2018. Credit: REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo)

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